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This chapter explains how to install and set up the Newton Press software. It
also provides instructions for connecting your computer and Newton personal
digital assistant (PDA) and trying out the Newton Press application.

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Summary of Contents for Newton Press

Page 1: ...also provides instructions for connecting your computer and Newton personal digital assistant PDA and trying out the Newton Press application In this package Check the contents of your Newton Press pa...

Page 2: ...eed to connect the two machines You can connect a Newton PDA directly to your computer using the serial cable If you are connecting your Newton PDA directly to your computer see Connecting a Newton PD...

Page 3: ...thorized Apple dealer To connect your Newton PDA and your computer by cable 1 Turn off your computer and Newton PDA 2 Connect one end of the cable to the modem or printer port and plug the other end o...

Page 4: ...and cable that your network uses Some LocalTalk connector boxes require RJ 11 cables like those used to connect telephones to wall jacks Other AppleTalk networks use LocalTalk connector boxes that req...

Page 5: ...the software The Installer program installs the application software and fonts you need For a list of the files that are installed with Newton Press see the Readme file installed with the Newton Pres...

Page 6: ...4 Double click the disk icon to open it 5 Double click the Installer icon to start the Installer program IMPORTANT The Installer checks whether you have the correct system software and enough free sp...

Page 7: ...ke sure you turn off your software extensions as described in the previous section m Make sure you have enough free disk space on your hard disk If necessary drag old files you no longer need into the...

Page 8: ...wton Press connection preferences 1 Double click the Newton Press icon to open the application The Newton Press window appears 2 Choose Preferences from the Edit menu The Preferences dialog box appear...

Page 9: ...ocalTalk cables and connection click the Connect via Network option If you are connecting with a serial cable to a PowerBook you may see only one combined option of Printer Modem in the Port pop up me...

Page 10: ...wn arrows on the Newton Press window to move from page to page You can browse the information that you ve added to this book The information that appears on the screen however is not yet a Newton pack...

Page 11: ...PDA You can turn this automatic installation feature off if you wish See Chapter 7 Setting Preferences for more information You re now ready to set up the Newton PDA to communicate with the computer...

Page 12: ...on 2 0 the slip may appear slightly different 4 If the type of connection that appears in the slip is not correct tap Connect via to change the connection If it is correct skip to step 8 A list of con...

Page 13: ...close the slip Note If your Newton PDA uses a version of the Newton operating system earlier than version 2 0 select the computer and tap Use Macintosh m If you don t see the computer you want and yo...

Page 14: ...e book see Chapter 8 Viewing Your Book on a Newton PDA Problems If the new book didn t transfer to your Newton make sure that m the connections between your Newton PDA and the computer are properly at...

Page 15: ...Newton Press application If you have a book open that you haven t saved you see a message asking if you want to save your work Click Save to save your work or Don t Save to discard the currently open...

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Page 17: ...a new book m Move from page to page through a book or jump to a specific page m Edit a book and copy and paste text and graphics m Add documents from your computer applications to a book m Add graphic...

Page 18: ...On your computer drag a document onto the Newton Press icon The Newton Press application opens adds the document to a book and prepares to install the book A message appears telling you to establish...

Page 19: ...you haven t saved your changes Newton Press asks if you want to save your work Click Save to save the currently open document 2 Choose New from the File menu The new book appears in an untitled empty...

Page 20: ...out formatting your document see Chapter 3 Formatting Your Newton Book To edit text m Select the text you want to change and type or choose commands from the menus to change it Navigating in your docu...

Page 21: ...your book see Bringing Graphics into a Book later in this chapter For information about adding text see the next section Bringing Documents into a Book Bringing documents into a book After opening a...

Page 22: ...add the tables to a book If a word processing document has footnotes Newton Press will not add them Newton Press can add several types of graphics For a list of the graphic formats that Newton Press...

Page 23: ...o your book If the application finds fonts that are not available on a Newton PDA a dialog box appears asking you to select a Newton PDA font to substitute Click the button for Espy Sans Geneva or New...

Page 24: ...le of Contents Dragging and dropping a document for editing To add a document to a book quickly you can drag a document icon into the open Newton Press window Newton Press automatically adds the docum...

Page 25: ...eriodically Should a power outage or other problem arise you can open your last version of the book without losing your work For information about saving your work in progress see Saving and Opening Y...

Page 26: ...ed in to resize or scale the graphic to fit within the dimensions of the Newton Press window You can also place images that are larger than the screen in a book and the reader on the Newton PDA can sc...

Page 27: ...mage from your document graphics application or the Scrapbook and paste the image directly into the Newton Press book You can also add them to a book by choosing the Add command in the File menu To co...

Page 28: ...the book and pick an icon click Title in the Newton Press window or choose Title from the Book menu The Title dialog box appears Choose an icon from the pop up menu at the top of the dialog box Choosi...

Page 29: ...que title and long name You cannot install a Newton book package on your Newton PDA if a package with the same title and long name already resides on the Newton PDA To specify the book title and other...

Page 30: ...n and continue working on until your book is completed Once the book is finalized you then save it as a book package that can be installed on a Newton PDA Saving your work in progress To save your wor...

Page 31: ...he desktop You can also open it from within the Newton Press application To open a book that you ve saved as work in progress from within the application 1 Close the currently open document if there i...

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Page 33: ...ding such as Confidential that appears at the top of all pages m use the fonts font sizes and font styles used by a Newton PDA m center text or align it left or right you can also align graphics m ali...

Page 34: ...s matches the abilities of the Newton PDA For example text can appear in three fonts Espy Sans New York and Geneva because these three fonts are available on Newton PDAs When you add documents to a Ne...

Page 35: ...ecessary formatting changes You can then add the document to Newton Press For more information about using templates and the screen dimensions of a Newton PDA see the Readme file installed with your N...

Page 36: ...moving a page break Should you need to combine pages later you can open a page and choose Remove Page Break from the Format menu to combine the current page with the one before it To see where page br...

Page 37: ...e Format menu 3 Choose Remove Page Break from the Format menu Creating a header You can create a single heading that appears at the tops of all pages For example you can use a header to display the wo...

Page 38: ...screen 2 Select the header and edit the text To remove the header later choose Header again from the Format menu Using fonts Newton PDAs can display three fonts New York Geneva and Espy Sans Therefor...

Page 39: ...d be used to replace other fonts When the dialog box appears select one of the three Newton PDA fonts that you want substituted and click OK Newton Press automatically makes this font substitution eac...

Page 40: ...et a preference so that the dialog box no longer appears and font substitutions are always made automatically For more information about setting the Font Substitution preference see Chapter 7 Preferen...

Page 41: ...the book You can left align text center it or align it on the right margin You can align a single paragraph or a group of paragraphs You cannot change the alignment of individual lines within a parag...

Page 42: ...e Show Tabs from the Format menu the Tab window appears You use this window to set tabs for the currently selected text To see the tab markers for a specific paragraph click the paragraph When you add...

Page 43: ...limeters or pt for points to indicate the measuring system you re using To set tab stops 1 Click where you want to create tabbed text or select the text you want to set up with tabbed spacing 2 Choose...

Page 44: ...n a good idea to reformat tables in the original application to fit within the Newton PDA screen before you add them to a book Some applications create tables as matrices of cells that hold the table...

Page 45: ...around the paragraphs to which you apply a border To apply a border 1 Select the text you want to place a border around 2 Choose Border from the Format menu To remove a border select the text or grap...

Page 46: ...ainst a black background Inverting text is especially useful for creating distinctive headings in your books To invert selected text 1 Select the text you want to invert 2 Choose Invert from the Forma...

Page 47: ...n list book headings or topics When readers open the Table of Contents window on their Newton PDAs they can tap a topic and have that page of your document instantly appear You don t have to create a...

Page 48: ...in on the Newton Press window click the close box on the Table of Contents window or choose Hide Table of Contents from the Book menu To follow a topic in the Table of Contents window to its destinati...

Page 49: ...the table of contents 2 Click the Topic button or choose New Topic from the Book menu The Table of Contents window appears and the new topic is added to the list The topic is automatically inserted i...

Page 50: ...You can edit and change this topic later if you want For more information about setting the application to add a table of contents topic for an imported file see Chapter 7 Setting Preferences Editing...

Page 51: ...ary To delete a topic from the table of contents 1 Click the Overview button on the Newton Press screen to open the Table of Contents window 2 Click the topic you want to delete 3 Press the Delete key...

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Page 53: ...agraphs or graphics allows the reader to tap a paragraph or graphic and instantly see the cross referenced information You can use linking as a convenient way to show appendixes tables definitions cha...

Page 54: ...users reading your book will not see the indicator You should provide instructions or graphics that indicate a link For example you can create a paragraph that says Tap here to see and create a link...

Page 55: ...5 To return to the origin of the link choose Return to Link from the Book menu Choosing Return to Link from the Book menu returns you to the starting point of the link However it does not create a re...

Page 56: ...ensure that you haven t mistakenly linked unrelated information and have links which lead to the wrong destination To check links 1 Click the linked paragraph that you want to check 2 Choose Follow Li...

Page 57: ...e sure you have m finalized the format of your document checking the layout of pages m checked that the table of contents and linked pages work as you expect m specified a book title and provided othe...

Page 58: ...connect the Newton PDA to your computer or network For instructions for connecting your device and computer see Chapter 1 Getting Started Also be sure that you ve identified the type of connection you...

Page 59: ...ou want to install 3 Click Open Newton Press then waits for you to establish a connection from your Newton PDA Preparing the Newton PDA To install a package on your Newton PDA do the following on your...

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Page 61: ...wnloaded to a Newton PDA after you create it m specify how fonts will be used and whether you are notified about fonts that are substituted automatically when you import a document that has fonts not...

Page 62: ...y dragging a document onto the Newton Press application icon Newton Press places the newly created book in this folder To set the folder 1 In the Auto Create section click the checkbox next to Save pa...

Page 63: ...ntents Text preferences Newton PDAs can display three fonts Espy Sans Geneva and New York Documents that you import into a book may use a variety of other fonts To have text using such fonts appear co...

Page 64: ...g and closing quotation marks or as you type To use curly quotation marks in a book m Click the Smart Quotes option until an X appears To set the font and font size of text for each new book m Select...

Page 65: ...on your Newton PDA m Click the Install book after creating checkbox until an X appears After connecting your computer to your Newton PDA you must specify the type of connection you used You specify t...

Page 66: ...wton Press book you can turn the Newton sound effects on or off This setting does not affect the sounds heard by the Newton PDA user To turn Newton sound effects on m Click the Newton sound effects ch...

Page 67: ...bling you to view the book on a Newton PDA Using Newton Book Reader you can m open a Newton book m move from page to page to view the document m open a table of contents and jump to a specific topic m...

Page 68: ...ook 1 Tap the Extras Drawer and locate the Newton book icon 2 Tap the book icon The open book appears on the screen 68 Chapter 8 An example of a book icon installed in the internal memory An example o...

Page 69: ...the scroll arrows on the right side to move through the table of contents or the Up and Down arrows on the Newton PDA screen if necessary 2 Tap the topic you want to view If there are subtopics in th...

Page 70: ...e using a version of the Newton operating system earlier than version 2 0 the information button may not appear and the other control buttons may look slightly different You can mark up or make notes...

Page 71: ...ber button A slip appears 2 Write the number of the page you want to see To close the slip without moving to a different page tap X Setting a bookmark To set a bookmark 1 Display the page you want to...

Page 72: ...want to create a new bookmark tap the X at the bottom right corner of the slip If you create more than six bookmarks the last bookmark is added to the slip and the first bookmark you created is erase...

Page 73: ...you cannot eliminate specific bookmarks When the bookmark slip holds six bookmarks adding a new bookmark replaces one of the old ones To erase a bookmark 1 Tap the Bookmark button The bookmark slip a...

Page 74: ...copy parts of a Newton book 1 Go to the part you want to copy 2 To select the item hold the pen down on or near the item until a heavy mark appears and you hear a squeak Then draw the highlighting mar...

Page 75: ...g for you to place it in another document 4 Tap the X to close the book 5 Open the item where you want the selected information to appear The small box indicating the selected item appears 75 Viewing...

Page 76: ...d your own annotations to a book by tapping the Markup button You cannot edit a book on a Newton PDA You can however add notes by writing drawing or typing text with the on screen keyboard You can als...

Page 77: ...printer or fax modem If you annotated the book your annotations will be shown as well To print or fax a book 1 Connect your Newton PDA to a printer a fax modem or a fax modem card See your Newton PDA...

Page 78: ...Tap X to close the page number slip 8 Enter the appropriate information in the print or fax slip 9 Tap Print Book or Fax then tap Now or Later For more detailed information about printing or faxing se...

Page 79: ...apple com newton Problems installing the software If you had problems installing the Newton Press software check the following m Make sure that you ve turned off the extensions when installing your so...

Page 80: ...r invert a single word in a paragraph You can only invert or draw borders around entire paragraphs not selections within a paragraph When the Go To page dialog box appears there is sometimes not a fin...

Page 81: ...dialog box will reappear When adding a number of documents to a book how can I easily find out where different documents start in my book Turn on the Files Names in the Table of Contents option in th...

Page 82: ...the Newton PDA first and then delay in using the Newton Press software to install a package the Newton PDA may report an error because the computer has not responded quickly enough Make sure that the...

Page 83: ...about selecting an application and allocating more memory to it I removed old files from the System Folder and now Newton Press won t start up If you have recently removed files from your system chec...

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Page 85: ...0 B backup copy of a book 30 bitmapped files 26 27 Bookmark button Newton Book Reader 70 71 72 73 bookmarks setting removing on the Newton PDA 70 71 73 Book menu Break Link command 55 Delete Topic com...

Page 86: ...wton PDA to your computer 2 5 connections setting up on the Newton PDA 11 14 18 specifying preferences for 7 9 65 troubleshooting 82 contents of your Newton Press package 1 Control period to cancel th...

Page 87: ...tting 63 81 files See also documents installed with Newton Press 5 83 removing from your system 83 folders for storing book packages preference setting 62 Follow Link command Book menu 56 fonts appear...

Page 88: ...and File menu 59 Invert command Format menu 46 inverting color and background of text 47 troubleshooting 80 L left aligned text 41 linking defined 53 links breaking 54 55 checking 56 creating 54 55 re...

Page 89: ...ents or books saved as work in progress 31 new books 19 Table of Contents window 48 Overview button Newton PDA 69 Newton Press 48 50 51 P packages See book packages page going to a specific page on th...

Page 90: ...20 34 39 troubleshooting 80 selecting text to copy Newton Book Reader 74 serial cable 3 Show Indicators command Format menu 36 37 50 Show Table of Contents command Book menu 48 Show Tabs command Form...

Page 91: ...or borders 80 fonts appear distorted 80 Go To Page dialog box 80 installation problems 7 79 installing a book package onto the Newton PDA 82 memory availability 82 83 naming packages 82 Select All com...

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Page 93: ...tate laws Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate Apple is not responsible for printing or clerical errors Apple Computer Inc 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CA...

Page 94: ...ents 2 Connecting your Newton PDA to your computer 2 Connecting a Newton PDA directly to your computer 3 Connecting a Newton PDA over an AppleTalk network 4 Installing Newton Press 5 Installation trou...

Page 95: ...ile 25 Bringing graphics into a book 25 Naming and identifying a book 28 Saving and opening your work in progress 30 Saving your work in progress 30 Opening your work in progress 31 3 Formatting Your...

Page 96: ...f Contents window 51 5 Linking 53 Creating links 54 Breaking links 55 Checking links 56 6 Saving and Installing Book Packages 57 Creating a book package 57 Installing a package on a Newton PDA 58 Prep...

Page 97: ...g to a specific page 71 Copying parts of a book 74 Annotating books 76 Printing and faxing a book 77 Closing a Newton book 78 9 Troubleshooting 79 Problems installing the software 79 Problems editing...

Page 98: ...dit text as you create a Newton book and easily format it to match the screen size and display characteristics of Newton PDAs After creating an electronic document on your computer you can save it as...

Page 99: ...cuments such as business reports reference materials price sheets product listings and tables for display on Newton PDAs You can create company reports and documents that someone with a Newton PDA can...

Page 100: ...can refer to on the job or in the field taking advantage of the portability of the Newton PDA And you can create documents with graphics and charts that provide Newton PDA users with effective and per...

Page 101: ...eate a book Creating a book is roughly a four step process m You first open the Newton Press application and type or add the content of your book You can then format the book to look the way you want...

Page 102: ...lication to use the fonts and line widths that fit a Newton PDA screen before bringing them into Newton Press As you work with a book in Newton Press you can see how it will appear on a Newton PDA scr...

Page 103: ...package to the Newton PDA where readers can open and view it at any time Reading the book on a Newton PDA When you install a book on a Newton PDA users can open books view and annotate pages and even...

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